Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/obolkъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic edit

 
*ȍbolci nadъ borъmì

Etymology edit

From an earlier **obvolkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *abwalkas. Morphologically from *ȍb- + *vȏlkъ. It literally means "a thing that shambles (in the sky)". For the loss of -v- between ob- and a vowel compare *obьlъ which comes from an earlier **obvьlъ.

Noun edit

*ȍbolkъ m[1][2][3][4]

  1. cloud

Inflection edit

See also edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “о́блако”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “о́болоко”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References edit

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*obolkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 362:m. o ʻcloudʼ
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “obolkъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c cloud (MP 20)
  3. ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “oblȃk”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:Pslovan. *ȍb(v)olkъ
  4. ^ Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2014) “Drevnerusskoje udarenije. Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ”, in Languages of Slavic Culture[2] (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 436:о́болокоc...óbolokoc...